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Water Supply

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

682 c272-84 

Session

2005-06

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Rooker | 682 c281 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not aware of that proposal at the 600-foot level. I do not know offhand where we are—...

Lord Monson | 682 c281 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it may help the Minister to know that it was the 210-foot contour line.

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Lord Campbell-Savours | 682 c281 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is the department doing any work on the economics of desalination? On the national grid, i...

Lord Rooker | 682 c281 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is some work on desalination. A pilot desalination plant—I am not sure whether it is...

Lord Rooker | 682 c280 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my Lords. I covered that, because it was raised in the question of the noble Baroness, Lady Byf...

Countess of Mar | 682 c280 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when the Minister was explaining to the noble Baroness, Lady Byford, the difficulties of t...

Lord Rooker | 682 c280-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, those in—I nearly said the ODPM—the new department will be looking to me to knock that one...

Lord Methuen | 682 c281 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is the Minister aware of a 1930s scheme called the grand contour canal, which I think was ...

Lord Blaker | 682 c280 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest in that I live in the south-east, which is the worst affected area. ...

Lord Rooker | 682 c279-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I share some of my noble friend’s sentiments. Currently the Government have no plans to im...

Lord Rooker | 682 c283-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord spoilt his question with his last comment. This is not a question of monoto...

Lord Rooker | 682 c282-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not know what instructions have yet been given for standpipes. Currently, no companie...

Lord Dixon-Smith | 682 c283 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have two interests to declare: first, I am a farmer and landowner with a licence to abst...

Lord Christopher | 682 c282 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, what instructions are being issued if there are to be standpipes? I declare the same inter...

Lord Rooker | 682 c282 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will try to bottle that question because the noble Baroness is a one-Baroness publicity ...

Baroness O'Cathain | 682 c281-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, everybody has ideas for fixing the problem. They are all fixable, but how much will that c...

Lord Rooker | 682 c272-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House I shall repeat in the form of a Statement the response made to...

Lord Borrie | 682 c279 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend has said that he would not wish to roll out a full national system of wate...

Lord Dubs | 682 c277-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend for what he said. First, given that we seem to have had a lot of w...

Lord Rooker | 682 c278 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will come to the point about reservoirs in a moment. On the latter point, since privatis...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 682 c274-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. I concur that the Government are not to ...

Lord Rooker | 682 c275-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for the noble Baronesses’ comments. I shall do my best to answer their quest...

Lord Livsey of Talgarth | 682 c279 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the Minister know that Welsh Water—Dwr Cymru—a not-for-profit company, which has been...

Lord Rooker | 682 c279 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it sounds as though people have a lot to learn from the Welsh.

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 682 c278 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the noble Lord’s conversion to the theory of privatisation, but I am with his no...

Lord Rooker | 682 c278-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is true that Thames Water has a bad record on leakage compared with other water compani...

Baroness Byford | 682 c273-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for repeating the Answer to the urgent Question tabled by my...

Subjects

Conservation Droughts Water Water supply Repairs and maintenance South East

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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